Tropical disease

Under tropical diseases are understood infectious human diseases, which occur mainly in the tropics. Most are caused by parasites that are transmitted by blood-sucking insects, especially mosquitoes.

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Most important tropical diseases by clinical Dictionary of Pschyrembel 1972

  • Amoebic dysentery
  • Cholera
  • Elephantiasis
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Leprosy
  • Malaria
  • Yellow fever
  • Larva migrans cutanea ( hookworm infestation)
  • African trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness)

The Tropical Disease Research Platform ( TDR ) of the World Health Organization ( WHO) lists ten tropical diseases that are the focus of the fight, but partly also to the so-called neglected tropical diseases are counted (NTD ):

  • Chagas disease ( American trypanosomiasis )
  • Dengue
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Leprosy
  • Lymphatic filariasis ( elephantiasis see )
  • Malaria
  • Onchocerciasis ( river blindness )
  • Schistosomiasis ( bilharzia )
  • Tuberculosis

Other tropical diseases, including so-called Neglected Tropical Diseases ( NTD):

  • Buruli ulcer
  • Chikungunya virus disease
  • Dracontiasis (also Guinea worm disease )
  • Japanese Encephalitis
  • Loiasis (Cameroon bump Calabarschwellung, often referred to by the pathogen as Loa Loa )
  • O'nyong - nyong fever
  • Noma
  • Strongyloidiasis ( Strongyloides stercoralis infestation)
  • Trachoma ( Egyptian grain disease )
  • Tropical treponematoses: yaws ( raspberry disease ), Pinta, Bejel ( Endemic Syphilis )
  • Trichuriasis ( whipworm infection )
NTD (disambiguation) Dracunculiasis Pinta (disease) Nonvenereal endemic syphilis Trichuris trichiura Travel medicine
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